How to Build Chords Course

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In How to Build Chords, learn how to build basic triads, use inversions, extended chords, harmonize melodies, and read chord charts and lead sheets.

How to Build Chords

Make Your Own Music

You are here because you want to write your own music or accompany yourself while you sing or even add harmony to a melody you’re written or heard.

Successfully doing any of these activities makes you feel free, like you can actual create magic. It also leads to deep, human connection in a safe space. When you make music, you make connections with other musicians, with whoever happens to be listening, and with yourself, who is often the hardest person to connect with!

Outside of the realm of classical music, most music-making involves playing from chords, not sheet music, but not many teachers actually give you a strong foundation in understanding how to build chords, how to read chord charts or lead sheets, or how to add harmony to a melody you’ve either written or have been asked to accompany.

This mini-course fills that gap in your knowledge, so you can just focus on creating music.

What You Can Expect From How to Build Chords

In How to Build Chords, you’ll first learn the fundamental elements that make up chords and how to use them to build simple triads. Once you’ve mastered this, you’ll learn how chords can be re-arranged to flow more smoothly from one chord to the next.

All along the way, you’ll also get to learn lead sheet and pop chord notation. That means, you’ll be able to look up chords for any piece of music and be able to play it from the search results, immediately.

At the end of the first part of the course, you’ll learn how to effectively add chords to a melody, so that it always sounds good.

From there, you’ll move onto fancier chord building with an introduction to extended chords by looking at seventh chords and inversions.

Every single lesson comes with an unlimited number of practice exercises: you’ll get immediate feedback on how much you’re understanding the concepts and where you might need help. And when you need to ask for help, we’ve got a community for that (plus, I’m always happy to answer questions!)

Features of How to Build Chords

  • Unlimited practice exercises
  • Community discussion group
  • Short but in-depth
  • Intuitive curriculum

Course Content

Welcome to How to Build Chords
The Building Materials: Whole Versus Half Steps
Whole and Half Step Practice
Major and Minor Thirds
Major and Minor Thirds Practice
Major and Minor Triads
Building Major and Minor Triads in Root Position Practice
Diminished and Augmented Triads
Building All Types of Triads in Root Position
Inversions, First Inversion, and Interval of a 6th
Second Inversion and the Interval of a 4th
Identifying and Building All Triads in Every Configuration
Suspensions
How to Harmonize a Melody
Introduction to Seventh Chords
Dominant Seventh Chords
Minor (Minor) Seventh Chords
Major Seventh Chords
Dominant, Minor, and Major Seventh Chord Practice
Minor Major Seventh Chords
Half and Fully Diminished Seventh Chords
Build All Seventh Chords in Root Position
Seventh Chord Inversions
Seventh Chords in Every Configuration Practice
Review and Moving Forward
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Product Type

Course

Skill Level

Beginner

Topic

Music Theory and Analysis

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